[News] Statistical Evidence of Slower GNU/Linux in English-Speaking World

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Linux: A Search Engine’s View

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| It is always interesting where Linux is gaining public interest, which
| countries are falling behind. (Source: Google Trends)
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| * Russia claimed the top spot
| * India came in second
| * Number of Asian countries in the top ten: 3
| * Number of European countries in the top ten: 7
| * Number of North American countries in the top ten: 0
| * Position of Russian among all languages: 1
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| By the end of this year 29,000 labs serving some 32,000,000 students will be
| fully deployed and in active use.
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| By the end of next year (2009) those numbers will have swelled to 53,000 labs
| serving some 52,000,000 students.
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| In South American countries, as in most other areas of the world, the
| government is by far the biggest purchaser of software. Thus the Open Source
| trend that is now established in the government sector across the continent
| will doubtless spur Open Source adoption in the private sector.
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| There are a variety of motives for Open Source adoption in play in there,
| from the reduction in software costs to the desire to provide a "leg-up" to
| the local software industry. However, the motivation of the Peruvian
| government is unique in that the Peruvian supporters of the bill see "Open
| Source" as a citizen's right. The ownership and responsibility for the use of
| data and software have become a political issue in Peru.
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| This is an idea that is unlikely to go away.
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